Oil and Gas Company Challenges EPA’s Renewable Fuel Decision

Oil and gas company REH Co. on Wednesday challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2019 decision to deny a Wyoming refinery exemptions from Renewable Fuel Standard obligations.

The company told the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that it can bring the challenge five years after the denial decision because it’s within 60 days of a relevant D.C. Circuit decision involving REH’s Sinclair Wyoming Refining Co.

In that July opinion, the court vacated a different EPA decision regarding Sinclair’s 2018 exemption petition, “making a challenge to the 2019 Denial ripe for review again,” REH said.

The D.C. Circuit ...